Each week, The World’s Jeb Sharp looks at the history behind the headlines on the How We Got Here podcast.

Singer Marianne Faithfull’s been called the first rock chick, a 1960s icon, and an honorary Rolling Stone. Her career has also been grist for the British tabloid mill: dated Mick Jagger, overdosed from drugs, music comeback, beat breast cancer. Now she’s got a new album out — of other people’s songs — and she’s in the middle of a brief tour of the US. The World’s Marco Werman sat down with Marianne Faithfull to ask her a simple question.